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If you re interested in starting a nonprofit in the CNMI, you can learn the necessary steps at a free workshop Friday by MANGO, or Marianas Alliance of Non-Governmental Organizations. MANGO is the CNMI s umbrella organization for local nonprofits.
The workshop, Nonprofit Toolkit: How to Start a Nonprofit, will take place 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., at the MANGO Resource Center and via Zoom. The workshop will teach you all the steps needed to effectively start and register a nonprofit organization with the federal government and in the CNMI. Go to tinyurl.com/3sdk2ahk to register.
(MANGO) — Marianas Alliance of Non-Governmental Organizations completed its first cohort training on Thursday, May 13, 2021 with 14 participants from eight CNMI nonprofit organizations receiving certificates of completion for
Lemmai-Mei gets $682,485 federal grant from MANGO
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The board of directors of Marianas Alliance of Non-Governmental Organizations, or MANGO, announced a grant award of $682,485 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Native Americans for the Lemmai-Mei Nonprofit Incubator Project.
The three-year grant period began on Sept. 30 and will end Sept. 29, 2023. As an umbrella organization for the CNMI’s nonprofit organizations, the Lemmai-Mei Nonprofit Incubator Project will help 25 native nonprofit organizations receive incubator services to improve their sustainability, according to a news release.
Lemmai-Mei is a hyphenation of the Chamorro word for the breadfruit, lemmai, and the Carolinian word for breadfruit, mei. Breadfruit is considered a staple food throughout Oceania. The tree’s leaves, roots and sap have medicinal uses, and both the sap and the wood are used in canoe building.